The ABC reports that the past two years of criminal sentences handed down to Cape York crims will be reviewed. This comes after a gang of nine teenagers and men raped a ten year old Aurukun girl. All of the… Read More ›
Day: 2007-12-10
Blogroll update – for your reading pleasure
The Hoyden blogroll has had a moderately hefty update. Go check it out, there’s plenty of amazing, confronting, hilarious, thought-provoking reading there. Recent additions include: Ace Sheilas baroquestar Subway to Venus Ricky Buchanan Bonza Blokes strangedave (ETA) Crimitism
Toddler with “political hair” threatened with preschool expulsion
LP has been stoushing over whether schools are in the right to exclude devout students wearing a kirpan (Sikh short sword). Are expressions of ethnicity, race, identity and heritage more slippery – or less? What about when the expression is… Read More ›
Busy day
Today I’m doing some reorganisation of the information architecture here. Now that WordPress has incorporated tagging we are modifying how we label our posts: instead of having a gazillion proliferating categories, we will shortly have a shorter list of broad… Read More ›
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